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Chicago examiner vol vii no 1 1 2 a m friday april 30 1909 16 pages price one cent delivered by cam 30 cents per month forgeries in8 years by van vlissingen 2,717,751 spurious securities for 1 633,200 still afloat with 60,000 to take them up books belie confession still insists rosenfeld and rosenberg were only dupes knowing of swindles legal action is expected referee refuses to let attor ney rosenthal lay basis for i future defense peter vak vlissingen's deals in his forged paper counting principal and inter st in the eight years preceeding his conviction totaled 2,717,751 his spurious notes outstanding at the present time on which his victims stand to lose practically every cent total 1,633,200 from january 1 5.901 to november 16 1908 when he fell under the clutches of the law he bad paid to holders of spurious paper jts the notes and coupons became due the sum of 1,084,551 these figures clinching the former Chicago real estate man's title as the world's arch forger and disclosing his dishonesty oa & grander scale than was ever suspected when he was fushed to a cell in the joliet penitenti ary appear in a report made by price waterhouse fc co accountants which was made public yesterday at the bankruptcy hearing before federal referee woan convict's estimate was 750,000 van vlissingen in his statement to assistant state's attorney barbour last fall said he did not know the ex tent of his crimes but thought the total of forged paper outstanding was about 750,000 the introduction of the report into the bearing was sprung as a surprise t>y besstng rosenthal counsel for maurice rosenfeld and bernhard rosenberg the men who van vlissingen charges knew of his forgeries since december 10 1904 and took part of the proceeds from his crimes to satisfy claims they held against him mr rosenthal's reference to the report caused a clash between him and george h peaks counsel for the Chicago title & trust company trustee of the van vlissin gen estate at his request i lent him that tepcrt for just a minute said mi peaks and now " th be through with it in just a minute eaid rosenthal forger reiterates accusations i insist on your returning it now re turned mr peaks price waterhouse & j.'o were not employed by the trustee but by thies j lefens i'm not sure the re port's correct attorney rosenthal returned the report but obtained another copy from attorney oustate f fischer who sat at his side he made use ot the report in an effort to prove that rosenfeld and rosenberg were not the only investors whose claims were paid out of van vlissingen's ill-gotten gains there was this difference retorted van vlissingen on the stand rosenfeld and rosenberg knew and the others dij not was that the only difference asked attorney rosenthal lt is the only difference that occurs to me at the present moment the witness replied the lawyer reading from the report named over a number of investors who were paid large sums by van vlissingen on account of interest or principal on forged paper they held did you pay that interest or principal nt of money representing the proceeds of sales of forged paper he asked principally the witness replied forgets some of the amounts this admission was regarded as u vic tory by attorney rosenthal in spite of protests of attorney teaks he in effect oÂ»s-examined the witness on the story told in thc previous two days when asked the amounts he had paid to other victims than rosenfeld and ro aenberg the witness pleaded poor mem ory or replied the books will show such were the answers attorney rosenthai received when he asked if henry bartholo may had not received 122,345ydr w t belfield 18.*j16 and limil blatz or mil waukee a large sum i paid henry barlholomay large amounts love tragedy at smith school boy kills girl and then self porter smith of Chicago dart mouth graduate shoots student he loved crazed by broken troth smith college campus at northampton mass scene of the awful deed tie body of porter macdongal smith the dartmouth graduate and son of a wealthy Chicago widow who yesterday on the crowded campus of smith college in northampton mass crazed by love shot and killed miss helen ayer harden the girl who refused to take young smith's at tentions seriously and then sent a bullet crashing into his own brain is on its way to this city accompanied by miss emily smith a sister of the homicide lud suicide the young man's sister who was the chum of the girl that met her death at smith's hands on the campus had a pre monition that some dire trouble would fol low the visit of her brother to northamp ton an hour before the tragedy was en acted sue had wired her mother mrs j m smith who lives at the kenwood ho tel 4700 kenwood avenue this significant message : â– ' i will leave for home to-day and will â€¢ bring porter with me if possible comes with body instead instead she was compelled to remain a few hours longer and then start for home with the body of her brother who i had almost in an instant brought to a i close two promising young lives ! insanity brought about by smith's flat : rejection by miss marden is the only cause that can be ascribed for the young fellow's deed i he had been depressed for some time i ever since a letter in whicu the young college man possessed of wealth and with i good prospects had flatly aÂ£ked the young girl to say once and^for all time whether ' or not she would become his wife was re â– ceived his mother feared his mind would give way under the strain and the ' brooding last sunday morning juei a 1 few hours before he started on his trip 1 to massachusetts she sent him to dr j 1 alexander kinloch who lives in the ken wood hotel for an examination physically he was the finest specimen ' of young manhood that 1 hÂ»ve ever seen said dr kinloch yesterday but hi mind was on his rejection all the time 1 i talked to him as his own father would j have done ] told him to try and forget jmiss marden he seemed to be in better - humor when he left me he must have â– had an attack of temporary insanity that is the only way in which i can account for his awful deed . i tragedy of the campus the tragedy rook place yesterday niorn ' ing ou the green-carpeted campus of i smith that famous oid eastern college . for young women just after the chapel bells had rung out . j smith had been in northampton since i i wednesday he hud met and had talked i with miss harden wijo was tiie daughter the picture shows porter smith as lie was when a member of vie glee and mandolin club at dartmouth college smith was prominent in college social affairs and a member of the baseball team sugar trust pays 900,000 to u s officials still subject to crimi nal action for defrauding government new xgrk april 29 the sugar trust to-day paid . 900,000 to . the ignited states government this amount being the balance of the 2,000,000 the government agreed to accept in settlement of 59.000.000 of fines and claims against the trust for using swindling scales in weighing imported sugar the payment was made en the advice of counsel who knew that its clients had not the slightest chance of escape under the recent ruling of the united states court for this district it was a cheap way ont and the lawyers persuaded the trust to accept it the settlement of this civil action how ever does not remove from the peril of jail officials of the trust who were re sponsible for the doctored scales and for the bribing of united states customs officers appointed to check the weighing criminal proceedings on these charges are now contemplated the frauds were perpetrated in the south brooklyn docks of the havemeyer & klder plant the parent factory of the trust they had been going on since_lb94 right up to 1907 when they were dis covered by government officials the following statement was issned to day by attorney general wickersham at washington regarding the settlement the attorney general with the concur rence of thc secretary of the treasury has just approved a settlement between the american sugar refining company and the united states government of all the claims which the latter has against it arising out of the fraudulent weighing at the docks of its refineries in brooklyn and jersey city in making this settlement the sugar company pays in full the recent judg ment for the penalty in the amount of 134,411.03 which was awarded against it by a jury in the case tried in the federal court last march together with interest and agrees to take no appeal from that judgment in addition to this it pays into the united states treasury 2,000,000 more representing the duties which have been unpaid during the past twelve years owing to these fraudulent practices 1 239,055.97 of this amount has already been paid in under protest to collector loeb on his reliquidatlon as a result of the trial above mentioned of the duties i unon the cargoes entered at the have meyer and klder refineries between the years 1901 and 1907 when the frauds were discovered thc sugar company abandons its pro tests on these payments and gives up its right to appeal from mr locb's reliquida ! tion and in addition to this pays into the united states treasury the above judgment and over 7tk),000 more to cover the duties unpaid ar thc havemeyer nd eider docks prior to 1901 and at the jersey city re finery between 1896 and 190p " storm wrecks state prison wall six hundred feet of inclosure of michigan city peniten tiary are leveled militia is called out authorities fear prisoners will escape â€” some may be at liberty now a violent tornado struck the michigan city penitentiary at michigan city ind last night partly wrecking the big penal institution and converting the 700 con victs into a raving howling mass of hu manity who fongut to escape from the prison at an eariy hour this morning j it was believed that no prisoners had es caped but the authorities at the prison made frantic appeals upon the state militia for aid in guarding the fear-strick en and desperate convicts at an early hour this morning reports from michigan city were meager because the storm had laid tow telegraph and telephone wires just how much damage is done to the big penitentiary which lies across the lake sixty miles from Chicago is not known but reports state that the prison walls are breeched in many places and that the cell houses where the prisoners are con fined at nighl are also badly damaged the storm struck the city early in the even ing and carried destruction in its path i leaving its course marked by a trail oil j wreckage governor marohall ot indiana was noti-j fied of ti damage to the prison and de j clared that he would rush state troops to i the scene at once the troops are expected j to arrive in michigan city at 6 o'clock this | morning ready to guard the convicts until i the prison can be repaired the indiana governor tried to reach captain c m c.il vert of the indiana xatlon.il guard early this morning but war unable to do so chair factory wrecked ford & johnson's big chair factory ' which stands right beside the prison walls | was practically destroyed and it was the n.nss of wreckage from this building which tore the holes in the walls of indiana's state i'fteon sir honored feet of the prison wall was completely wrecked when the big chair factory collapsed under ithe force of the storm when the convicts tenrb the crashing and crumbling of the walls they shrieked and cursed and prayed to be released their crie3 could be heard above the roar ing of the wind and some of the prisoners were transformed almost into maniacs through their fear warden reed took prompt measures to keep the convicts from breaking out of their barred cells he armed all of the i prison guards with rifles and placed them ! in the prison corridors with instructions i to shoot to kill if necessary in the meantime the prisoners were i shouting themselves hoarse and were call â€¢ ing upon one another to make united ef i fort to free themselves from the cell , they begged the guards to throw 1 the sliding bars which lock all the cells on ' one tier and allow them the freedom of the r cellhouse so that they would have some : chance of escaping death in case the pris ' on was completely wrecked their pleas and prayers fell unheeded upon the ears â€¢ of the guards who tried to reassure them : with the statement that there was no dan ; ger t convicts crazed with fear i 1 many of the convicts in paroxysms of j fear nnd terror tore their hands and ! bruised their bodies hurling themselves against the iron doors of their cells they declared that the guards were try ing to murder them by keeping them caged 1 when the prison was threatened with de struction iit every minute ; keep to your posts men and kill the first prisoner who manages to get out of 1 his cell if the prison is wrecked we will ' all xace death together was the calm 1 command warden reed kept repeating to ' his guards and every jjuard stuck to his ' post and kept his loaded rifle ready tor in stant use evelyn thaw is guilty held in contempt and must pay 506 rr go to jail new yor'.c april 20 evelyn nesbitt thaw was adjudged guilty of contempt of court to-day and unless within five daj-8 she appears before justice meavo.v with 306 she will be committed to led low street jail in any event that jurist will appoint ft receiver to-morrow to delve into her affairs with the end in view of ascer taining whether she is pot possessed of sufficient funds to make good a claim of 256 msde against her by elsie hartung a milliner according to joseph h buhler of counsel for the tradeswoman it has been discovered that eveljn thaw has an account at the plaza bank a girl for wilhelmina hague report says queen is mother of a daughter london april 30 a dispatch from the hague says that queen ilhelmina ' fare birth to a girl to-night and the sub jects of the holland queen are said to be greatly disappointed having hoped for a son as heir to the throne professor who was ' killed by street car ekis jj â– &'.<& yazrr prof scott killed in car death trap instructor in Chicago theolog ical seminary crushed be tween pay now cars the rev hugh mcdo'nam scott vrh for the last twenty seven years has bee professor in ecclesiastical history in th Chicago theological seminary was killed shortly before t o'clock last evening by toeing crushed between two cars at the terminus of tlie van birren street line at state street the extra width of the new pay as you enter type of cars is blamed for the i professor scott wits aboat to bcwrd a car which had stopped ou lie east bound track and which was preparing to switch to the west bound rails as he grasped tte handrail of tae rear platform he was caught between the vestibule and the front of a west bound car which was ! passing over the switch the clergyman was crushed between tlie cars and before the motorman of the west ward moving car could bring it to a stop j several ribs had teen broken rushed to hospital i the injured trian was extricated from between the cars with much difficulty and was carried to a neighboring fruit store whither nu ambulance was hurried from the harrison street police station _ dr charles moore who was summoned or dered professor scott taken to the harri son street emergency hospital death came before the institution was reached tiowever and the body was taken to rolston's undertaking rooms s72 wj bash avenue an examination revealed that several splinters of broken bone had penetrated his lungs and that death was due to shock and internal hemorrhage native of nova scotia professor scott was born in guysbor ough xova scotia in 1s48 he was grad uated from dalhousie college halifax x s in j870 and the following year be came a divinity student at the university of edinburgh where he was graduated in he studied in berlin and leipzig in 1s78 to 1881 having been ordained as a congregational minister after leaving the university of edinburgh the degree of doctor of divinity was confered upon him by be'oit college in 1884 several years after he become a member of the faculty of the Chicago theological seminary came to Chicago in 1881 dr scott came to Chicago for the first ] time in 1881 in which year he was ap pointed to the chair of ecclesiastical his tory in the theological school the clergyman's endeavors were not confined to his work in the school however for he was the author of many books pap | ers and pamphlets on religious subjects i which have appeared in the various i sectarian prints during the last twenty j he was married may c 1ss3 to helen grace gladwln of Chicago and became ! the father of three children gertrude j arthur and donaiel all living at the scott ! residence 520 west adams street dr scott delivered a series of lectures j before the students of princeton tueo j logical seminary in 1896 in 18fio he pub ' lished his papers on the times of i christ which were printed in the bibli j cal worid among his latest works are religious and national life nml the | reformed revelation published in oe j preparations for tile funeral were oe 1 gun at the scott home last night but i the friends of tile family were unable to j say what day the services will be held mr scott became hysterical when she j beard of her husband's death and re 1 fr.setl to be consoled her condition be ! came o alarming it was necessary to j summon a physician cyclones and hurricanes with rain hail and snow ravage whole country three men are kilied and hun dreds of persons injured by falling buildings in Chicago and its suburbs x . â€” report steamer tilden lost on lake michigan damages caused by blowing down of buildings will amount to thousands of dollars â€” many homeless six meet violent deaths outside city of Chicago â– â€” telegraphic communication is greatly interfered with in all sections of the country traffic tied up by snow 13 killed and 150 hurt in cyclone in south one ol the most violent april storms on record swept Chicago last even ing just after sundown causing three deaths and mar injuries do ing thousands of dollars worth of damage bxrboÂ£ng liuudings and making an apparently inextricable tangle of electric wijfas the most remarkable feature of the storm was its scope tt extended from new york to the dakotas and as far south ai the mason and dixon line within that territory the damage in many places i'a exceeded tha damage in Chicago out on lake michigan the storm was especially violent and grave fears were expressed for the safety of the steamship samuel j tilden which had two vessels in tow it should have been reported yesterday afternoon but up to a late hour last night nothing had been heard of it lake rougher than ever before i don't recall ever having seen the lake rougher : said captain car land of the life saving station at the mouth of the river if all the ships that are out now reach port they will be very fortunate that's all i have t say following is the list of the dead dying and injured in Chicago and su urbs as the result of the storm : the dead charles berg sixty years old 6250 wabash avenue a contractor dropped dead in front of 219 west one hundred and fourth street during the storm heart disease superinduced by the storm is thought to have caused th death the kensington police took the body to van wyngarden's undertak ing rooms 10823 michigan avenue joseph zebar laborer 1004 seventy-nth street killed at the grand cross ing tack company plant two unidentified men killed at seventy-ninth street and ellis avenue by the collapse of a cottage the dying adam domdrowski laborer ss4s sherman avenue injured internally in the grand crossing accident cfl the injured v paul sworzowski laborer 89107 m ackinaw avenue injured internally . joseph wasolowski laborer 8j36 greenberg avenue hurt by flying debris * frank kartizski 8402 baltimore avenue slightly hurt by a brick joseph soitolowaki laborer 8858 exchange avenue slightly hurt jf joseph ziebert laborer 8810 eastern avenue arm injured t john schlesski 8824 exchange avenue injured on head george sckolowski laborer injured slightly peter faronzi laborer slightly hurt malcolm petro laborer leg injured john davis forty-five years old living at morgan park struck bjr falling fence near the city hall and county building and sustained severe scalp wound c w junge 4:j2 carroll avenue blown in front of a milwaukee avenue car and badly bruised james sherin nineteen years old 497 sheffield aveuue struck by taxi cab at michigan avenue and south water street right side bruised and poa sible internal injuries elinor richardson 1161 racine avenue blown in front of a north clttrk street car at north clark street and racine avenue internal injuries taken to german american hospital detris salvatoria thirty-five year old lu2 federal court struc uy a falling sign board at fifth aveuue and taylor street right leg fractured taken to the county hospital paschal poleserro twenty-four years old 2c3 north center avenue struck by a plank blown from a building at west madison and sangamon streets left leg hurt jo'ua kilbcurn fifty-eight years old iiu lalo uc flfe desplaines street by an easibouud madison streel car which he fallctfl see because of his umbrella badly hurt suffering nom severe sc*b wounds killed by a brick wall the first man on the list was killed in an accident at the gratÃŸ crossing tack company's plant a brick wall â€” part of an extension beirh ! built to the plant blew over on a low frame building used as a pickling i factory tew of the occupants of the frame building escaped without in j jury ar.d at least one is dying ss here there and everywhere throughout the city buildings were struck by lightning and the fire department was kept on the run there bas i never been 3 more severe electrical storm or one of longer duration in cm j cago the flashes of lightning almost continuous and the jt&nasÂ«s what hail wind and snow did in teriffic storm three persona were killed and more than a score injured in chi cago one man blown into lake and drowned at milwaukee one killed and eight injured at forest city ark thousands of dollars worth of property was destroyed building 1 being unroofed or blown down family of nine persons caught in a house which collapsed at 5047 west twenty-nfth street and every one of them injured i-ake michigan heating orer its hanks with the force of tidal waves and grave fears entertained for lake crafts steamship samuel k tilden and two vessels it was tow ing reported missing walls of indiana state peniten tiary reported blown down and mil itia called out to prevent jail de livery three killed in cyclone at horns ziake miss boy drowned in mississippi stiver at st louis by sail boat overturn ing thirty families in lake wis forced to flee from homes by flood water is rising rapidly many buildings wrecked in bock ford ill bain heaviest in years mcxeesport pa partially wrecked and one man blown into river and drowned two hundred passengers on train near death engine derailed by striking steel girder blown across track entinued on 2d page sth column continued on 4th page 2d column ml weather forecast rf l[9gt Chicago and vicinity show f*4 ers an i thunderstorms possibly a % Â¥ turning to snow flurries and colder jy|p a friday with westerly gale satur tj help help kelp the get a job is a [ i constant cry kelp yourself by inserting â€¢ ! a small ad ln the situation wanted i 1 columns of the examiner and receire the j services of the examiner employment : ksehanfs â€¢ j enjoy fullerton's famous fables of baseball jrat don't overlook use want ads ,^^^^^^ â€¢ w/il there is a time for all things w if the time 11 4 p to read the want ads t f _Â§_ â€¢ is now lg

Chicago examiner vol vii no 1 1 2 a m friday april 30 1909 16 pages price one cent delivered by cam 30 cents per month forgeries in8 years by van vlissingen 2,717,751 spurious securities for 1 633,200 still afloat with 60,000 to take them up books belie confession still insists rosenfeld and rosenberg were only dupes knowing of swindles legal action is expected referee refuses to let attor ney rosenthal lay basis for i future defense peter vak vlissingen's deals in his forged paper counting principal and inter st in the eight years preceeding his conviction totaled 2,717,751 his spurious notes outstanding at the present time on which his victims stand to lose practically every cent total 1,633,200 from january 1 5.901 to november 16 1908 when he fell under the clutches of the law he bad paid to holders of spurious paper jts the notes and coupons became due the sum of 1,084,551 these figures clinching the former Chicago real estate man's title as the world's arch forger and disclosing his dishonesty oa & grander scale than was ever suspected when he was fushed to a cell in the joliet penitenti ary appear in a report made by price waterhouse fc co accountants which was made public yesterday at the bankruptcy hearing before federal referee woan convict's estimate was 750,000 van vlissingen in his statement to assistant state's attorney barbour last fall said he did not know the ex tent of his crimes but thought the total of forged paper outstanding was about 750,000 the introduction of the report into the bearing was sprung as a surprise t>y besstng rosenthal counsel for maurice rosenfeld and bernhard rosenberg the men who van vlissingen charges knew of his forgeries since december 10 1904 and took part of the proceeds from his crimes to satisfy claims they held against him mr rosenthal's reference to the report caused a clash between him and george h peaks counsel for the Chicago title & trust company trustee of the van vlissin gen estate at his request i lent him that tepcrt for just a minute said mi peaks and now " th be through with it in just a minute eaid rosenthal forger reiterates accusations i insist on your returning it now re turned mr peaks price waterhouse & j.'o were not employed by the trustee but by thies j lefens i'm not sure the re port's correct attorney rosenthal returned the report but obtained another copy from attorney oustate f fischer who sat at his side he made use ot the report in an effort to prove that rosenfeld and rosenberg were not the only investors whose claims were paid out of van vlissingen's ill-gotten gains there was this difference retorted van vlissingen on the stand rosenfeld and rosenberg knew and the others dij not was that the only difference asked attorney rosenthal lt is the only difference that occurs to me at the present moment the witness replied the lawyer reading from the report named over a number of investors who were paid large sums by van vlissingen on account of interest or principal on forged paper they held did you pay that interest or principal nt of money representing the proceeds of sales of forged paper he asked principally the witness replied forgets some of the amounts this admission was regarded as u vic tory by attorney rosenthal in spite of protests of attorney teaks he in effect oÂ»s-examined the witness on the story told in thc previous two days when asked the amounts he had paid to other victims than rosenfeld and ro aenberg the witness pleaded poor mem ory or replied the books will show such were the answers attorney rosenthai received when he asked if henry bartholo may had not received 122,345ydr w t belfield 18.*j16 and limil blatz or mil waukee a large sum i paid henry barlholomay large amounts love tragedy at smith school boy kills girl and then self porter smith of Chicago dart mouth graduate shoots student he loved crazed by broken troth smith college campus at northampton mass scene of the awful deed tie body of porter macdongal smith the dartmouth graduate and son of a wealthy Chicago widow who yesterday on the crowded campus of smith college in northampton mass crazed by love shot and killed miss helen ayer harden the girl who refused to take young smith's at tentions seriously and then sent a bullet crashing into his own brain is on its way to this city accompanied by miss emily smith a sister of the homicide lud suicide the young man's sister who was the chum of the girl that met her death at smith's hands on the campus had a pre monition that some dire trouble would fol low the visit of her brother to northamp ton an hour before the tragedy was en acted sue had wired her mother mrs j m smith who lives at the kenwood ho tel 4700 kenwood avenue this significant message : â– ' i will leave for home to-day and will â€¢ bring porter with me if possible comes with body instead instead she was compelled to remain a few hours longer and then start for home with the body of her brother who i had almost in an instant brought to a i close two promising young lives ! insanity brought about by smith's flat : rejection by miss marden is the only cause that can be ascribed for the young fellow's deed i he had been depressed for some time i ever since a letter in whicu the young college man possessed of wealth and with i good prospects had flatly aÂ£ked the young girl to say once and^for all time whether ' or not she would become his wife was re â– ceived his mother feared his mind would give way under the strain and the ' brooding last sunday morning juei a 1 few hours before he started on his trip 1 to massachusetts she sent him to dr j 1 alexander kinloch who lives in the ken wood hotel for an examination physically he was the finest specimen ' of young manhood that 1 hÂ»ve ever seen said dr kinloch yesterday but hi mind was on his rejection all the time 1 i talked to him as his own father would j have done ] told him to try and forget jmiss marden he seemed to be in better - humor when he left me he must have â– had an attack of temporary insanity that is the only way in which i can account for his awful deed . i tragedy of the campus the tragedy rook place yesterday niorn ' ing ou the green-carpeted campus of i smith that famous oid eastern college . for young women just after the chapel bells had rung out . j smith had been in northampton since i i wednesday he hud met and had talked i with miss harden wijo was tiie daughter the picture shows porter smith as lie was when a member of vie glee and mandolin club at dartmouth college smith was prominent in college social affairs and a member of the baseball team sugar trust pays 900,000 to u s officials still subject to crimi nal action for defrauding government new xgrk april 29 the sugar trust to-day paid . 900,000 to . the ignited states government this amount being the balance of the 2,000,000 the government agreed to accept in settlement of 59.000.000 of fines and claims against the trust for using swindling scales in weighing imported sugar the payment was made en the advice of counsel who knew that its clients had not the slightest chance of escape under the recent ruling of the united states court for this district it was a cheap way ont and the lawyers persuaded the trust to accept it the settlement of this civil action how ever does not remove from the peril of jail officials of the trust who were re sponsible for the doctored scales and for the bribing of united states customs officers appointed to check the weighing criminal proceedings on these charges are now contemplated the frauds were perpetrated in the south brooklyn docks of the havemeyer & klder plant the parent factory of the trust they had been going on since_lb94 right up to 1907 when they were dis covered by government officials the following statement was issned to day by attorney general wickersham at washington regarding the settlement the attorney general with the concur rence of thc secretary of the treasury has just approved a settlement between the american sugar refining company and the united states government of all the claims which the latter has against it arising out of the fraudulent weighing at the docks of its refineries in brooklyn and jersey city in making this settlement the sugar company pays in full the recent judg ment for the penalty in the amount of 134,411.03 which was awarded against it by a jury in the case tried in the federal court last march together with interest and agrees to take no appeal from that judgment in addition to this it pays into the united states treasury 2,000,000 more representing the duties which have been unpaid during the past twelve years owing to these fraudulent practices 1 239,055.97 of this amount has already been paid in under protest to collector loeb on his reliquidatlon as a result of the trial above mentioned of the duties i unon the cargoes entered at the have meyer and klder refineries between the years 1901 and 1907 when the frauds were discovered thc sugar company abandons its pro tests on these payments and gives up its right to appeal from mr locb's reliquida ! tion and in addition to this pays into the united states treasury the above judgment and over 7tk),000 more to cover the duties unpaid ar thc havemeyer nd eider docks prior to 1901 and at the jersey city re finery between 1896 and 190p " storm wrecks state prison wall six hundred feet of inclosure of michigan city peniten tiary are leveled militia is called out authorities fear prisoners will escape â€” some may be at liberty now a violent tornado struck the michigan city penitentiary at michigan city ind last night partly wrecking the big penal institution and converting the 700 con victs into a raving howling mass of hu manity who fongut to escape from the prison at an eariy hour this morning j it was believed that no prisoners had es caped but the authorities at the prison made frantic appeals upon the state militia for aid in guarding the fear-strick en and desperate convicts at an early hour this morning reports from michigan city were meager because the storm had laid tow telegraph and telephone wires just how much damage is done to the big penitentiary which lies across the lake sixty miles from Chicago is not known but reports state that the prison walls are breeched in many places and that the cell houses where the prisoners are con fined at nighl are also badly damaged the storm struck the city early in the even ing and carried destruction in its path i leaving its course marked by a trail oil j wreckage governor marohall ot indiana was noti-j fied of ti damage to the prison and de j clared that he would rush state troops to i the scene at once the troops are expected j to arrive in michigan city at 6 o'clock this | morning ready to guard the convicts until i the prison can be repaired the indiana governor tried to reach captain c m c.il vert of the indiana xatlon.il guard early this morning but war unable to do so chair factory wrecked ford & johnson's big chair factory ' which stands right beside the prison walls | was practically destroyed and it was the n.nss of wreckage from this building which tore the holes in the walls of indiana's state i'fteon sir honored feet of the prison wall was completely wrecked when the big chair factory collapsed under ithe force of the storm when the convicts tenrb the crashing and crumbling of the walls they shrieked and cursed and prayed to be released their crie3 could be heard above the roar ing of the wind and some of the prisoners were transformed almost into maniacs through their fear warden reed took prompt measures to keep the convicts from breaking out of their barred cells he armed all of the i prison guards with rifles and placed them ! in the prison corridors with instructions i to shoot to kill if necessary in the meantime the prisoners were i shouting themselves hoarse and were call â€¢ ing upon one another to make united ef i fort to free themselves from the cell , they begged the guards to throw 1 the sliding bars which lock all the cells on ' one tier and allow them the freedom of the r cellhouse so that they would have some : chance of escaping death in case the pris ' on was completely wrecked their pleas and prayers fell unheeded upon the ears â€¢ of the guards who tried to reassure them : with the statement that there was no dan ; ger t convicts crazed with fear i 1 many of the convicts in paroxysms of j fear nnd terror tore their hands and ! bruised their bodies hurling themselves against the iron doors of their cells they declared that the guards were try ing to murder them by keeping them caged 1 when the prison was threatened with de struction iit every minute ; keep to your posts men and kill the first prisoner who manages to get out of 1 his cell if the prison is wrecked we will ' all xace death together was the calm 1 command warden reed kept repeating to ' his guards and every jjuard stuck to his ' post and kept his loaded rifle ready tor in stant use evelyn thaw is guilty held in contempt and must pay 506 rr go to jail new yor'.c april 20 evelyn nesbitt thaw was adjudged guilty of contempt of court to-day and unless within five daj-8 she appears before justice meavo.v with 306 she will be committed to led low street jail in any event that jurist will appoint ft receiver to-morrow to delve into her affairs with the end in view of ascer taining whether she is pot possessed of sufficient funds to make good a claim of 256 msde against her by elsie hartung a milliner according to joseph h buhler of counsel for the tradeswoman it has been discovered that eveljn thaw has an account at the plaza bank a girl for wilhelmina hague report says queen is mother of a daughter london april 30 a dispatch from the hague says that queen ilhelmina ' fare birth to a girl to-night and the sub jects of the holland queen are said to be greatly disappointed having hoped for a son as heir to the throne professor who was ' killed by street 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